Chennai: Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani has self-quarantined himself after a Congress legislator he met tested positive for coronavirus disease on Tuesday, PTI quoted his office as saying today.
Vijay Rupani will not to meet anyone for a week as Congress MLA Imran Khedawala tested positive, the CM’s office said.
“Gujarat chief minister Vijay Rupani is fit and fine. Medical experts Dr Atul Patel and Dr RK Patel tested him today and have confirmed that CM has no symptoms for now. But as per safety measures, no outsider is allowed at his residence,” Ashwani Kumar, the CM’s secretary, was quoted as saying by ANI.
Rupani will run the State administration through video conferences and by making phone calls, it is said.
In a worrying development, the Congress MLA, who attended the high-level meeting called by Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani on Tuesday morning, tested positive for coronavirus in the evening.
Congress MLA Imran Khedawala tested positive for coronavirus on Tuesday evening, said Deputy Municipal Commissioner Om Prakash Machra. The MLA from the Khadia-Jamalpur seat of Ahmedabad will be admitted to a designated COVID-19 hospital soon, he said.
Khedawala, along with some other Congress MLAs, was present in the meeting with Rupani held at the CM’s official residence in Gandhinagar in the morning.